Travel Blogs from Chongqing

... teas and 2 green teas. We drank so much tea that I got a little tea drunk! honestly I don't know what happened; I got spacey and the giggles! Whoops! All of the teas were good and all very different. I bought the one that was grown in the local providence, since I felt more of a connection to the area. Everyone there was ...

... couch. A neighbor stopped by. She had been drinking most of the day so she was pretty funny. She called me a beautiful specimen, which I decided was weird, but still a compliment.

For dinner we had pork with a glaze of dijon mustard and brown sugar, sautéed veggies, rice, and for desert sauteed peaches and apples over the cake and topped with homemade whipped cream and a dash of cinnamon. It was a great food ...

... that it was over run with people (tourists like me- but all Chinese). Came back on the Metro and rather than just staying on line one I transferred to line 2 so I could ride on the metro that is more like a skyway - no rails. Very good and probably a lot cheaper to build than a conventional rail metro. (photos later). Lots of impressive bridges crossing the two rivers that flow through the city. The Chinese sure know how to build bridges. ...

... roads that seem to have been blocked for paving and then forgotten about leaving so much in a state of disrepair. Our next stop was the cable car across the Yangtze. I am sure it was rather glamorous in its day but that day was a long long time ago. There were no safety gates to prevent small children from dropping into the abyss prior to boarding. The views were great despite the smog and Chongqing has her very own Petronas Towers only instead of stainless steel and ...